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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
This makes me think about the terror submariners must have felt when their vessels are damaged in battle and sink to the bottom. You have to sit there waiting to die, unless they put their pistols to use.
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Most submarines do not make it to the bottom unless you are in shallow waters. Crush depth for naval submarines is only a fraction of most deep water ocean depth. You just get imploded once you hit 1,300–2,000 ft (400–610 m). You sit there hearing creaking and warping noises as you see your submarine gauges passing crush depth which comes very quickly and then the implosion happens faster than the human nervous system can register pain.
USS Thresher imploded around 600 meters and the wreckage debris was found strewn out at 2600m.